Dear Zindagi Review

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Isha Chakraborty
  • 4.5/5
A relate-able feel good journey

The movie, translating roughly to Dear Life is a film about a young girl name Kaira (Alia Bhatt) who is a budding cinematographer and someone who is not very much in touch with life in its entirety.

Kaira is all of us, meaning she is someone like you and me making the character much more relatable to young adult. The movie strikingly gives a very thought provoking message. We as young adults in today's generation are so riddled with troubles surrounding us all the time we have more or less become machines of humanity, with no feelings and empathy towards anything. We all look for the right chair to lay back on, and often in the process we go through a lot of other chairs that don't necessarily appeal or provide us with the support we look for, but it does help us get our choices straight.

Dr. Jehangir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) is an unorthodox psychiatrist who changes the way we look at psychological doctors. His character is like a breath of fresh air but is very utopian.

Compared to other conventional Bollywood movies, this film goes a long step forward in changing the film industry considerably.

The movie is thought provoking and will last in your memory for a long time. Gauri Shinde has brought together the perfect star cast that is both sweet and fitting at the same time. To see Bollywood making such woman-centered movies is a revolution in itself.

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mangoman
s Kaira our Ferris Bueller? might be. This was one of the few "coming of the phase" films that Bollywood usually avoids to experiment with. Personally, I found the central characters "first world problems" and hypocrisy a bit annoying. But nevertheless, I felt the film itself suffered from identity crisis. Confused.
Isha Chakraborty
I agree. Kaira's character came off annoying to me as well. But it's something common. I have a very close friend who is exactly like Kaira in terms of behaving with people and facing adversities. For this very reason, I could connect to the movie well.
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